Ömer Özkan

Ömer Özkan (* 1971 in Haymana , Ankara ) is a Turkish plastic surgeon and transplant doctor. He teaches and researches at Akdeniz Üniversitesi in Antalya . In 2012, he and his team performed a face transplant for the first time in Turkey .

Life

Özkan graduated from Cumhuriyet High School in Ankara in 1988 . After completing his medical degree at Hacettepe University in 1995, he continued his training as a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the university until 2001.

In 2004, Ömer Özkan was on a microsurgery research scholarship for six months at the University of Tokyo , and later also six months at I-Shou University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for further training in plastic and hand surgery. In 2006 he spent three months in the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich with a grant from the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) .

Ömer Özkan has been a professor at the Institute for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Akdeniz Üniversitesi since 2006. His research interests are in aesthetic surgery of the face and body, breast reconstruction , tissue reconstruction, the reconstruction of facial muscles in facial paralysis , jaw surgery and labioplasty .

Services

On August 9th, Ömer Özkan transplanted the uterus of a dead organ donor to a twenty-one year old after the patient was born without a uterus. This was the first transplant of this type in the world, as previously only living donations were used in these cases. In 2013 the patient became pregnant through in vitro fertilization, but the pregnancy had to be terminated in the eighth week of pregnancy due to the death of the fetus. The case attracted worldwide attention.

On January 21, 2012, Ömer Özkan performed a face transplant for the first time in Turkey. The 19-year-old worker was badly burned from an overturned stove as a baby. At the same time, the doctor performed a second transplant. The second patient had lost both arms and a leg when he was 11 years old when he touched a power line because he tried to drive away birds with a metal rod. However, the transplanted right leg had to be amputated again only one day later because of complications. The donor organs and limbs for both operations came from one donor, so the operations had to be performed almost simultaneously. Özcan had removed organs and limbs himself in Usak and had flown to Antalya in a plane specially provided by the Turkish Ministry of Health.

On May 16, 2012, he and his team completed the fourth face transplant and the second full face transplant in Turkey.

Private life

Ömer Özkan is married to the doctor Özlenen Özkan, who works at the same institute. The couple have two daughters.

Awards

• 2002: Junior Basic Science Prize, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF).

Web links

• Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ömer Özkan , Akdeniz Üniversitesi Clinic, accessed on April 16, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ömer Özkan , Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi, accessed on April 16, 2018
3. ↑ Çok yorgun çok mütevazı , Hürriyet
4. ↑ Nakil rahimle anne olmak için, mayıs 2013'ü bekliyor , Sabah , January 25, 2012
5. ↑ Derya Sert'in hamileliği sonlandırıldı , Vatan, May 14, 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b} Emre Baylan, Erol Akkır: Profesör Özkan: Yüzleri birbirine benzemeyecek , Hürriyet , January 22, 2012
7. ↑ ^{a b} Tamam doktor , Hürriyet , January 24, 2012
8. ↑ Özkan ve ekibinden 2. yüz nakli , Sabah , May 15, 2012
9. ↑ Personal directory , Akdeniz Üniversitesi
10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ömer Özkan kızının doğumuna yetişemedi , Hürriyet , September 2, 2013.
11. ↑ Ömer Özkan ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Akdeniz Üniversitesi